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...line of books in Pepper by Hugh King Harris (Lathrop). Lee & Shepard, $1.50). This canine counterpart of Black Beauty is the "autobiography" of a lively little terrier who will soon capture you with his drollness and lively antics. Speaking of the animal world, Marguerite Steen has a new biography, Spider (Little, Brown, $2.50), is the story of the life of Richard Adams, the composer, told in the fascinating manner of the author of Stallion...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...
...experimental subjects he had his choice of Mrs. Blair, two students. He rejected all three, picked himself. A spider bit his little finger. A sharp pain shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other...
...became president of the University of Akron (Ohio), a tax-supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just out of high school...
...Passed the $1,003,726,000 appropriation bill for independent offices, after increasing the Federal Trade Commission's funds to continue its "Power Trust" inquiry and listening to Nebraska's Norris lecture from a huge wall chart labeled "Spider Web of Wail Street...